Update Fiji

Suva harbour looking west

In town yesterday, the crowd gathers

It's raining here in Suva, again. Wet place Suva, seems to funnel rain very well. Explains why it is so green! Wet, muggy and lots of mossies. Geoff is going crazy, looks like he is trying to do some sort of seated Hungarian leg slapping dance!!

Tomorrow we will go in to Customs and clear out of Suva, so that we can head around to the west coast to Lautoka. We hope that if Customs goes quickly enough we can be on the go after lunch tomorrow, if it takes more time then we will head out first thing Tuesday morning. Who knows how complicated it will be, but we need to get going so we can meet Peter in Nadi on Thursday and be snuggly settled in at Vuda Point Marina. We need to go to Lautoka as we have to clear into Customs there so we can cruise the west coast islands. It's all very tiresome this clearing in and out of the same country, but what can you do???? It could explain why there are only 9 cruising yachts in the harbour at the moment??

Yesterday was a fun day, we went into town to look for a couple of things and do our grocery shopping at the big supermarket in the newish modern mall, have lunch in the food court....you know all those boring things you at home are so used to!!! We found that the last day of the big Hibiscus festival was causing chaos in the town, streets were packed with people, floats for the parade and cars! This is the biggest festival for Fiji and is sort of like a mini Ekka. They even have a King and Queen of Hibiscus. We did our shopping caught a taxi home, but later in the day decided to go back in for dinner at one of the many street stalls. It was nuts how many people were in town. But good fun, we went to the fairground and watched the rided, bought some Fairy floss, etc Geoff was exhausted, all those people freaked him out and I think the sugar high from the fairy floss didn't help?